Import 15.6 Planning issue

Planning call meeting recording

Team

~11353826

• 3 BE
• 1 FE
• 1 SET
• 1 shared SEC

Capacity / OOO

• Martin: OOO Oct. 25h - 27th

Team	Weight
backend (excl. SoftServe)	30
frontend (excl. SoftServe)	10
SoftServeImport	18-24

Anticipated % split for features/bugs/maintenance

This is excluding the work that SoftServe is contributing

• 40% features (weight 16)
• 30% bugs (weight 12)
• 30% maintenance (weight 12)

Boards

• Import Current Milestone Board
• Refinement Board
• Import Security Board

High level Objectives

• Finish GitHub importer
• Improve reliability of the GitLab migration

Objectives

Update 25.10.2022: some of the planned issues might slip, as we need to add to this milestone FedRAMP related effort to Document the REST API in OpenAPI V2 (see comment). List of 7 issues that need to be worked in 15.6.

Product prioritized typefeature list

1. Any %15.5 carryover
   1. Not started
      • 5️⃣ Cancel GitHub project imports - frontend (gitlab-org/gitlab#247325 - closed)
   2. At risk of slipping
      • 5️⃣ GitLab Migration - Associate MRs to issues (gitlab-org/gitlab#267947 - closed)
2. New feature work
   • Usability
     • 5️⃣ Update all import-related group selection dropd... (gitlab-org/gitlab#375958 - closed)
   • GitHub importer
     • 5️⃣ GitHub Importer: API for bulk import of persona... (gitlab-org/gitlab#371099 - closed)
     • 5️⃣ GitHub Importer - Migrate pull request assigned... (gitlab-org/gitlab#355137 - closed)
     • 3️⃣ Require code owner approval (gitlab-org/gitlab#376683 - closed)
     • 2️⃣ Allow force pushes - everyone (gitlab-org/gitlab#370943 - closed)

Engineering prioritized typemaintenance list (@wortschi )

1. Any %15.5 carryover
   1. Not started
   • item
   2. At risk of slipping
   • 4️⃣ Improve GitLab migration logs (gitlab-org/gitlab#368161 - closed)
   • 2️⃣ https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/373574+
2. New maintenance work
   • GitLab Migration
     • 5️⃣ Explore possibility of exporting a `.zip` file ... (gitlab-org/gitlab#376261 - closed)
     • 2️⃣ Prune ProjectExportJob records (gitlab-org/gitlab#351253 - closed)
   • GitHub importer:
     • 1️⃣ Remove unnecessary with_default_locale in githu... (gitlab-org/gitlab#372806 - closed)
   • Security
     • 3️⃣ Require `schemes:` kwarg for Gitlab::URLBlocker... (gitlab-org/gitlab#372317 - closed)
   • Other
     • 3️⃣ https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/376758+
     • 3️⃣ Combine all exported parts of project in one ta... (gitlab-org/gitlab#360685 - closed)

Prioritized typebug list

1. Any %15.5 carryover
   1. Not started
   • item
   2. At risk of slipping
   • item
2. New bugs
   • Security
     • 2️⃣ Repository import still allows to import 40 hex... (gitlab-org/gitlab#374082 - closed)
   • Infradev
     • 2️⃣ Investigate and fix RepositoryImportWorker job ... (gitlab-org/gitlab#356807 - closed)
   • GitLab Migration
     • 5️⃣ Gitlab Migration gets stuck in the importing st... (gitlab-org/gitlab#375588 - closed)
     • 3️⃣ Project export should not fail hard if a single... (gitlab-org/gitlab#292420 - closed)

Release Post Items

Status	Issue	Release Post MR
slips to 15.7	GitHub Importer: API for bulk import of persona... (gitlab-org/gitlab#371099 - closed)	GitHub Importer: API for bulk import of persona... (gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com!112869 - merged)
✅	GitLab Migration - Associate MRs to issues (gitlab-org/gitlab#267947 - closed)	GitLab Migration - associate MRs to issues (gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com!112811 - merged)
slips to 15.7	Cancel GitHub project imports - frontend (gitlab-org/gitlab#247325 - closed)	Cancel GitHub project import (gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com!112812 - merged)
✅	GitHub Importer - Migrate pull request assigned... (gitlab-org/gitlab#355137 - closed)	GitHub Importer - Migrate MR approvers/reviewers (gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com!113041 - merged)
✅	Require code owner approval (gitlab-org/gitlab#376683 - closed), Allow force pushes - everyone (gitlab-org/gitlab#370943 - closed)	Importing GitHub rules for protected branches (gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com!114712 - merged)

Completed Bugs (check off when added to 15.6 bug release post)

• Project export should not fail hard if a single... (gitlab-org/gitlab#292420 - closed)
• Investigate and fix RepositoryImportWorker job ... (gitlab-org/gitlab#356807 - closed)
• GitHub importer doesn't import all protected br... (gitlab-org/gitlab#378197 - closed)

Completed UI improvements (check off when added to 15.6 UI improvements release post)

• Update all import-related group selection dropd... (gitlab-org/gitlab#375958 - closed)

Progress on quarterly OKRs

• Migrate 1 dropdown to Pajamas
  • Replace user_select in app/assets/javascripts/p... (gitlab-org/gitlab#369993 - closed) is currently in progress and planned to be delivered in %15.5
• Reduce number of S2 bugs by 50% (starting at 9 issues) ✅
  • In total, we resolved/closed 6 out of 9 issues and have reached our OKR 🎉
• 90% of the GitLab migrations pass successfully
  • We implemented tracking in gitlab-org/gitlab#341506 (closed) and are currently monitoring the metrics
  • Currently, there are seeing a large % of failures related to GitLab group migration on .com
  • However, there is an upwards trend in the number of successful migrations this September, i.e., ~67% of our migrations currently finish successfully.
  • Dashboard link
• Achieve at least equal usage of GitLab migration compared to file-based import/export: tbd

TODO

• Schedule the planning call. Oct, 11 @ 11:30 CET
• Write milestone objectives.
• Review the roadmap with the team.
• Review milestone objectives with the team.
• Discuss capacity (OOO plans).
• Team planning to highlight/guess issues that can be delivered in 15.6, label Deliverable and set milestone to 15.6.
• Publish the planning call video: Unfiltered
• Clone the planning issue for the next milestone and link to this one.

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